April 17, 2022
I had about an ounce of pecans in the morning and then had a long two hour phone call. The pecans didn’t lift my BG level. Around noon I had lunch, and then my levels began to rise.
I knew I had to run an errand, so I decided to bike 20 minutes there, and 20 minutes back. My levels dropped in a step-wise fashion with each leg of the trip. Then they continued to smoothly drop until the evening when I went out walking (for about an hour) to pick up a take-out dinner.
I had one to two ounces of peanuts on the way, which picked my levels up a tad. After dinner, I decided to bolus 4 units, but then worried that I might have over done it; so I nibbled a bit of chocolate to make sure I didn’t crash. I didn’t. The level stayed even. I would have wanted it to drop a bit.
I bolused 1 unit of fast acting and 5 units of long acting before going to bed, and hit the hay – no exercise session. You can see the gradual decline in the BG level over night, waking in the mind 90’s by morning. That was a perfect landing. What I find curious is the sawtooth pattern of the level over night. It rose a bit, then dropped a bit, then rose, then dropped, etc.
I wonder what causes that pattern. The mysteries of BG persist….